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Displaying 66 of about 66 resultsMalabo (Guinea), 30 June 2011 – As the 17th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union wrapped up in Malabo, Guinea, talks of a common voice on sustainable development have continued to dominate agendas in Africa ahead of the United Nations climate talks to be held in Durban in December. The need to address the issue of disasters and climate…
ISTANBUL, Turkey, 25 May 2016 - The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction has peppered the speeches of government representatives making commitments at the World Humanitarian Summit which closed yesterday.
In particular, the ten ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) countries which have been at the centre of some of the world’s worst r…
The Nigeria Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and UNISDR organize a series of national and state level consultations for the Post-2015 Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction. The exercise begins with a literature review of the progress and lessons learned in implementing disaster risk reduction, followed by multi-stakeholder discussions of government m…
NEW YORK – Representatives from UN Member States meeting in New York this week have agreed on greater political commitment to resilience building. It comes in a context of rapidly rising disaster risk which is projected to reach 560 a year – or 1.5 disasters a day – by 2030. As the meeting got underway, Cyclone Mocha hit Myanmar and Bangladesh dest…
This contributing paper aims to investigate the extent to which community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) in practice really takes into account local knowledge (LK). It is often taken as given that CBDRR serves as a mechanism for the inclusion of local knowledge (LK) in disaster risk reduction (DRR). But the reality from the ground sugge…
This publication aims to shed some light on women’s capabilities to take leading roles in building disaster resilience. It features women as drivers of change in different socio-economic contexts, and under various gender conditions.
While the examples portrayed in the publication present a broad range of approaches to women-led disaster risk reduction…